Renaissance Dream Cultures

This volume explores the dream cultures of the European long sixteenth century, with a focus on Italian sources, reflections and debates on the nature and value of dreams, and frameworks of interpretation.

Autorentext

Alessandro Arcangeli is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Verona. He is the author of Cultural History: A Concise Introduction (2012) and co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Cultural History in the Western World (2020).

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Approaching the historical study of dreams 2. Themes 3. Les mots et les choses (an intermezzo on vocabulary) 4. Contexts 5. Recovering and negotiating a long tradition 6. Girolamo Cardano, the dreaming scholar 7. The sixteenth-century treatise on dreams: a quasi-genre 8. A selection of sources on Renaissance dream cultures 9. A look at images 10. Fragments towards a grand narrative 11. The development of the studies in historical dream cultures 12. A Coda on the oneiric present